► Sonardyne creates new group to enhance marine technology offering

16 March
2020 – The owners of marine technology
specialist Sonardyne have formed a new parent company to increase the breadth
and capabilities available to customers across the organisation’s growing
family of independent subsidiaries.

Sonardyne
Group will align and harness the joint strengths of Chelsea Technologies, EIVA,
Wavefront Systems, 2G Robotics and Sonardyne International, while maintaining
the operating independence of each company.

Sonardyne
International’s Managing Director John Ramsden will take the role of Sonardyne
Group CEO on April 1, supported by Simon Partridge, as Group Chief Strategy
Officer, and Stephen Fasham, as Group Chief Operating Officer. Graham Brown
will take over as Sonardyne International’s Managing Director. All other senior
roles at group company level will remain the same.

“The past 18 months have seen some
significant changes at Sonardyne,” says John Ramsden. “Chelsea, then EIVA, and
most recently 2G Robotics, have joined the Sonardyne stable, which already
included Wavefront Systems. We acquired each company as part of our long-term
growth, diversification and expansion strategy, and because of the potential
for closer co-operation between us. We also want to maintain each company’s
strengths and identity. We bought them because of their respective strengths;
we aim to build on and deepen these through the creation of a new
organisational structure, Sonardyne Group.”

Sonardyne
Group, headquartered in the UK, has a global footprint through its group
companies, including world-class manufacturing facilities, research and
development, sales, service and support with facilities in Canada, Denmark,
Brazil, Singapore and the US.

The
group entity will provide guidance and direction to the group companies, with a
light touch, promoting innovation, integrated offerings and growth while
enabling each group company to continue doing what it does best.

“Each
company will continue to focus on its own research and development, creating
new and innovative technologies, but we’ll also unlock new opportunities by
working in partnership and at scale; integrating systems and by providing
hybrid solutions,” says Simon Partridge. “For our customers, the result is access
to wider scope of supply, with less complexity, with the reassurance of global
service and support, whichever company or companies they’re dealing with.”

Sonardyne
Group provides world-leading solutions that enable those across the energy,
defence and civil markets to measure, navigate, communicate and explore the
world’s waters and oceans. The family-owned group’s core values remain
ingrained in its people who have passion for engineering and delivering value
to customers.
joined
Sonardyne International in 2013 as a Global Business Manager. Until most
recently, he was the company’s Investment and Integration Director.